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Phenakistiscope Disc with Geometric Shapes

Josef Bermann, Austrian, 1810 - 1866ca. 1840

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Paper disc with a hole in the center, 10 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. In the outermost ring, several still images show a small black circle passing forward over a red and white circle. In the innermost ring, a black and yellow circle rotate around the edges of a blue and red layered star.

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  • Title: Phenakistiscope Disc with Geometric Shapes
  • Creator: Josef Bermann, Austrian, 1810 - 1866
  • Date Created: ca. 1840
  • Location Created: Vienna, Austria
  • Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/97520
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard
  • Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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